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Paul J. Finnegan ’75, outgoing president of the Harvard Alumni Association, said that Gates?? generosity makes him one of the most highly anticipated commencement speakers in years...
...When Gates??a denizen of Wigglesworth Hall A-11 during his freshman year—first arrived at Harvard in 1973, few classes succeeded in captivating him in the same way that the computer industry would a few years later...
...Despite Gates?? inattentiveness in the classroom, few questioned his brilliance. He enrolled in graduate level courses and seldom appeared intimidated, even though he was often the youngest person in the lecture hall...
...said the school was looking for “journalism that reaches for untold stories and that is courageous and steps out there despite negative feedback from the public that is still trying to understand the role race plays in America.” Two other recent awards honor Gates?? work. On May 24, Gates will be presented with the National Arts Club’s Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in African and African American Scholarship, according to Dell M. Hamilton, the manager of events and publications at the Du Bois Institute for African and African American...
...statesmen, academics and the occasional man (or woman) of letters; corporate titans have been consciously excluded—including from the list of honorary degree recipients. Since 1950, the only corporate leader to address departing graduates has been IBM president Thomas Watson Jr. in 1981. In light of this, Gates?? selection is somewhat of an anomaly...